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Under the highly profitable model, farmers use the same field to raise blue-legged prawns and white-legged shrimps in the dry season, while rice is cultivated in the rainy season. Pham Van Hau, Vice Chairman of the Vinh Thuan district People’s Committee, said that breeding prawns lasts for six months and shrimps three months. Vinh Thuan district in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang plans to expand the shrimp cultivation area to 10,000ha. With such a schedule, farmers can harvest three crustacean crops and one rice crop a year. The model provides an average profit of about VND 300 million (USD 13,200) per ha per year, he said. The district plans to expand the model in Vinh Binh Nam, Vinh Binh Bac and Binh Minh communes, which are located along the Cai Lon River, and in Tan Thuan commune. The shrimps bred under this model are considered “clean” because farmers do not use chemicals. In addition, the quality of the field soil improves and … [Read more...] about Kien Giang expands shrimp-rice farming area

VietNamNet Bridge – Economists believe that it’s now the right time for Vietnam to cut down the rice growing area, especially when farmers now tend to give land back to the State.
A report of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) showed that farmers in six provinces of the Red River Delta and central region, 1,000 hectares of rice fields have been left uncultivated.
The figure is really alarming if noting that Vietnam is an agriculture country which is now the biggest rice exporter in the world.
The MARD’s plan on converting 200,000 hectares of land for rice fields into the land for growing other plants which can bring higher profits has got the support from experts.
MARD Minister Cao Duc Phat stressed that the ministry only recommends using the land for growing other kinds of plants, not using the land for other non-cultivation purposes. This is believed to be a good idea to help persuade farmers to come back to land fields.
Director of the Quang … [Read more...] about Vietnam considers cutting rice farming area down

Ministry says will pursue large-scale rice farming Ngoc Hung By Ngoc Hung - The Saigon Times Daily HCMC – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has pledged to step up the large-scale rice farming model, aiming to have 300,000 hectares in the Red River alone to raise rice quality despite difficulties in securing outlets for the output. As Vietnam is facing difficulties to boost rice export, the ministry deems the model one of the solutions to improve rice quality and to win customers’ confidence. The ministry now is making a zoning plan on developing 300,000 hectares in the Red River Delta in line with the large-scale rice field model to turn out rice specialties and japonica rice to meet rising demand at home and overseas. Meanwhile, southern provinces are looking to raise rice farming area under the model to a combined 200,000 hectares by next year, according to the Cultivation Department under the ministry. However, the ministry admitted that owing to the … [Read more...] about Ministry says will pursue large-scale rice farming

Vo Thi Hong, alias Bay Hong, is the first female farmer in Dong Thap Muoi (the Plain of Reeds) who was given the title of Labour Hero by the State in 1986 for her exemplary exploits in reclaiming the land for growing rice, making a contribution to turning it into a big granary of the country. She was then 36 years old. When asking for the house of Bay Hong in the commune of Kien Tuong, Long An Province, we were quite surprised when learning that she is known by most of the locals and called by the familiar and respective names of “Mrs. Hong driving plough machine” or “the Labour Hero of Rice Farming” that refers to her talent in reclaiming land for rice cultivation. Hong was born into a farming family in 1950. She is the sixth child in her family so she is called “Bay Hong” – the way people in Southern Vietnam call their sixth sister. During the resistance war against the US, although she was little she worked as a liaison person who rowed … [Read more...] about Bay Hong – The labour Hero of Rice Farming

The Government has asked the National Assembly (NA) to approve an area
zoned for rice cultivation of over 3.76 million hectares, by 2020, to
guarantee national food security.
The proposal was submitted in a report delivered by Minister of Natural
Resources and Environment Nguyen Minh Quang at the ongoing 11th meeting
of the 13th NA on March 21.
He quoted experts as saying that with more than 3.76 million hectares of
rice farming land, over 7 million hectares of rice will be planted
every year (an average of almost 2 crops per year), generating an annual
output of 42 million tonnes of unhusked rice. That volume is able to
ensure national food security as the Politburo said.
In the recommended 3.76 million hectares, about 400,000 hectares can be
under other crops, but the conditions required for rice farming will be
conserved so rice can be re-cultivated in that area when necessary. That
move will ensure the most effective use of land, the official … [Read more...] about Government suggests over 3.76 million ha of land for rice farming